Form shading

[samsmithnz]

I was wondering if there was some way that I could add a bit of shading to my forms, so they are not as plain,...?

 

I know there is a new transparent property...

[Iceplug]

What do you mean by "shading"?

You mean like a gradient in the background, or do you mean like another color?

In case of the latter, you can set the form's BackColor property.

For a gradient, you'd probably have to get a gradient brush from the System.Drawing libraries. :)

[samsmithnz]

The system.drawing library souds promising. any hints on where to start?

[Volte]

The MSDN sounds like a good place.

 

[msdn]System.Drawing[/msdn]

[samsmithnz]

haha i knew that. What I meant was theres so many namespaces in the GDI+, and i've only really developed business applications, so i was wondering if you knew more than jsut sugguesting a class to look at.

 

Its kind of like me saying "have you looked a system.directx".

[Volte]

Well, you haven't told me what exactly you want to do, so I can't get any more specific.

[samsmithnz]

For future reference this is what I was looking for:

 

Give it a try, its cool.

 

       'Draws a gradient using the specified colos on the entire page
       Dim objBrush As New Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush(Me.DisplayRectangle, color.blue, color.white, Drawing2D.LinearGradientMode.Vertical)
       Dim objGraphics As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics()

       objGraphics.FillRectangle(objBrush, Me.DisplayRectangle)

       objBrush.Dispose()
       objGraphics.Dispose()